Britannia: George V - Biographical article which concentrates on the changing role of the monarch during his reign.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) George V We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine George V
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) George V No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) George V
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. George V Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton George V
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) George V If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? George V
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein George V Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele George V
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams George V "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. George V
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) George V Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) George V
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry George V Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain George V
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius George V It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain George V
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words George V blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." George V
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli George V Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton George V
